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The work of local photographers Bonita Boothby and Richard Plourde will be on display for the month of May in the Woman’s Hospital Association Rotating

‘Residential School Perverted Everything that Was Beautiful’ Gina Laing lives a truth for survivors. Healing, never complete, is a process of myriad small acts of rebellion. Meghan Mast is a Winnipeg-based multimedia journalist who has covered agriculture, politics, hydro, health and the climate crisis. Her work has appeared on the CBC and in the Winnipeg Free Press, the Globe and Mail and Megaphone magazine. SHARES Over time, Gina Laing has come to love the water again. Photo by Meghan Mast. [Editor’s note: In June 2015, journalist Meghan Mast introduced T...

For residential school survivors, quiet power in daily tasks.

Perdita Felicien's mom Catherine was a poor young woman in St. Lucia when she was given a seemingly random, but ultimately life-changing, opportunity: to come to Canada with a wealthy white family and become their nanny. But when she gets to Canada, life is tougher than she expected, as she endures poverty, domestic violence and even homelessness. However, she still encouraged and supported her youngest daughter's athletic dreams. Felicien would go on to be a world-class hurdler and one of Canada's greatest track athletes.  My Mother's Daughter is the story of these two women, and how thei...

  Renowned writer Sky Dancer, otherwise known as Louise Bernice Halfe, is Canada’s ninth parliamentary poet laureate.    “It is a privilege to bring the First Peoples’ voices and stories, poetry and whatever genre they are bringing to life to the forefront,” Halfe said in a statement.   The role of the parliamentary poet laureate is to write poetry for parliamentarians or for special occasions, to hold poetry readings, and to help curate the Library of Parliament’s poetry collection.   The position, created in 2001, comes with a $20,000 stipend, $13,000 for trav...